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Extraintestinal Microsporidiosis [PDF]

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2014
ABSTRACT Microsporidia are highly specialized obligate intracellular organisms that are closely related to fungi. Although traditionally associated with diarrheal illness in patients with AIDS, extraintestinal infections involving various organs have been reported with increasing frequency in the past decade, particularly in immunocompromised
Poornima, Ramanan, Bobbi S, Pritt
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Microsporidiosis [PDF]

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1998
Abstract Four microsporidia have been reported from mammals other than man. These are: Encephalitozoon cuniculi, causing disseminated infections in a wide range of rodents, lagomorphs, carnivores, and primates; Thelohania apodemi, giving rise to cysts in the brain of field mice, Apodemus sylvaticus; Microsporidium buyukmichii in the ...
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A monoclonal antibody targeting spore wall protein 1 inhibits the proliferation of Nosema bombycis in Bombyx mori

Microbiology Spectrum, 2023
Microsporidia are obligate intracellular single-cell eukaryotic parasites that can infect almost all kinds of animals and cause microsporidiosis. However, there are a few achievements of microsporidiosis treatments.
Bin Yu, Rong Zheng, Maofei Bian, Ting Liu, Kun Lu, Jialing Bao, Guoqing Pan, Zeyang Zhou, Chunfeng Li   +8 more
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Renal Microsporidiosis in Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Recipients: A Case Series

Türk Patoloji Dergisi, 2020
Microsporidiosis is a rare, but emerging opportunistic infection in solid organ transplant and stem cell transplant recipients. Renal involvement in microsporidiosis is very rarely seen in these recipients.
Saloni SHAH, Sheba Sweetline JACOB, Rama MANI, Ashok PARAMESWARAN, Sunil KUMAR, Rajeev A ANNIGERI, Raja MAHESH, Ramya UPPULURI   +7 more
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New insights into the genome and transmission of the microsporidian pathogen Nosema muscidifuracis

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023
IntroductionNosema is a diverse genus of unicellular microsporidian parasites of insects and other arthropods. Nosema muscidifuracis infects parasitoid wasp species of Muscidifurax zaraptor and M.
Xiao Xiong, Xiao Xiong, Christopher J. Geden, Dan T. Bergstralh, Roxie L. White, John H. Werren, Xu Wang, Xu Wang, Xu Wang, Xu Wang   +9 more
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Microsporidiosis in a Lovebird [PDF]

Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation, 1989
Microsporidian parasites belonging to the protozoan phylum Microspora are reported to cause disease in the majority of invertebrate phyla and all 5 classes of vertebrates. The organisms cause serious diseases in silkworms, amphibians, reptiles, and fish, and are becoming of increasing importance in human and veterinary medicine.
S, Powell, K, Tang, F, Chandler, D, Parks, C, Hood   +4 more
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Microsporidiosis [PDF]

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, 2011
Microsporidia have emerged as causes of opportunistic infections associated with diarrhea and wasting in AIDS patients. This review describes recent reports of microsporidiosis in HIV-infected individuals and the growing awareness of microsporidiosis in non-HIV-infected populations.Microsporidia were only rarely recognized as causes of disease in ...
Elizabeth S, Didier, Louis M, Weiss
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Prevalence and public health relevance of enteric parasites in domestic dogs and cats in the region of Madrid (Spain) with an emphasis on Giardia duodenalis and Cryptosporidium sp.

Veterinary Medicine and Science, Volume 9, Issue 6, Page 2542-2558, November 2023., 2023
One in two pet dogs and cats is infected by intestinal parasites. Some of them have the potential to infect humans. Pups and kittens were at higher risk of infection. Performing a coproparasitological analysis is essential to establish a correct deworming protocol in these animals.
Marta Mateo, Ana Montoya, Begoña Bailo, Pamela C. Köster, Alejandro Dashti, Carolina Hernández‐Castro, José M. Saugar, Pablo Matas, Lihua Xiao, David Carmena   +9 more
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Biliary Enterocytozoon bieneusi infection in a dog under immunomodulatory therapy

Journal of Small Animal Practice, Volume 64, Issue 8, Page 535-538, August 2023., 2023
An 8‐year‐old female spayed Labrador retriever was presented for the evaluation of severe weight loss 10 weeks after starting an immunomodulatory treatment, including prednisolone and cyclosporine, for meningoencephalitis of unknown origin. Plasma biochemistry analysis showed mild to moderate increases in liver enzyme activities and a moderate decrease
L. A. Wolfer, W. U. Basso, C. F. Frey, S. Schuller, B. Amphimaque, J. Jankovic, J. Howard, L. M. Peters   +7 more
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Cryptosporidium, Enterocytozoon, and Cyclospora Infections in Pediatric and Adult Patients with Diarrhea in Tanzania. [PDF]

, 1999
Cryptosporidiosis, microsporidiosis, and cyclosporiasis were studied in four groups of Tanzanian inpatients: adults with AIDS-associated diarrhea, children with chronic diarrhea (of whom 23 of 59 were positive [+] for human immunodeficiency virus [HIV]),
Jorgensen, A F, Cegielski, J P, Reller, L B, Madden, J F, Manji, K, Ortega, Y R, Gaido, L, Schwartz, D A, Sterling, C R, Msengi, A E, Pulipaka, U P, McKee, S, Miller, S E, Mwakyusa, D H   +13 more
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